Ajit Pai @AjitPai
OTD in 1899, David Misell was granted a patent for a "new and useful Improvement in Electric Devices." It was a cylindrical tube through which batteries passed a current to a bulb. In early models, this yielded non-continuous flashes of light—hence its common name, "flashlight." https://t.co/Ak1lDK51eQ — PolitiTweet.org